How to Use water vapor in a Sentence

water vapor

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  • The pressure of the water vapor pushes paint off the wood.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The storms are airborne rivers of water vapor pushed by wind.
    — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In the WASP-96b spectrum, the peaks indicate the presence of water vapor.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 July 2022
  • The volcano increased the amount of water vapor in the stratosphere by 5 percent, one study found.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • One of the two teams also looked for evidence of plumes of water vapor erupting from the moon’s surface.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • In the image of the exoplanet WASP-96b, water vapor was seen.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • The jet stream helps with development and transport of storm systems and water vapor across the globe.
    — Max Golembo, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The spectrograph detected telltale signs of water vapor in the form of clouds and haze.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • The teal cloud is most likely water vapor from the eruption, with other gases seen as well.
    — Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2022
  • But cold air can’t hold as much water vapor as warm air, so cold air close to the ground is easier to saturate.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The one that brought all manner of chaos to Los Angeles this week formed when water vapor rose from the sea’s surface somewhere east of Hawaii.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The cold front has been reeling in water vapor from the Pacific Ocean into the atmosphere.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2023
  • In recent years, telescopes have detected signs of plumes of water vapor spewing out of the cracks and into space.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
  • This included the mandatory dark clouds, and a mildly humid hint that water vapor filled the air.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • Any that did form should quickly freeze or evaporate due to the extremely low pressure and a lack of water vapor.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 11 May 2023
  • Scientists have observed plumes of water vapor shooting from the surface of Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn.
    — Saugat Bolakhe, Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2023
  • The eruption shot record amounts of heat-trapping water vapor into the atmosphere.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Atmospheric rivers are long water vapor streams formed about a mile above Earth.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted significant amounts of water vapor around a young star 400 light years away.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
  • Made visible by clouds, these ribbons of water vapor extend thousands of miles from the tropics to the western U.S.
    — USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Each hemisphere’s ARs carry 90–95 percent of all water vapor in their half of the atmosphere.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Science has shown that a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor -- which can result in the ability for more rain to fall within the storm.
    — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Humidity seemed nonexistent, and the rich blue of the afternoon sky may have owed something to the absence of any blur of water vapor.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Both will likely sail through any plumes of water vapor detected to be erupting from Europa’s ice crust—if there are any.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Other researchers have also seen what might be signs of them in the water vapor plumes issuing from Enceladus.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Body heat is used to convert sweat into water vapor, and the resulting evaporation process helps cool the body.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The state is being hit by a family of atmospheric rivers — huge plumes of water vapor in the sky — in rapid succession.
    — Carly Stern, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The results from the Webb data analysis pointed to water vapor being present around GJ 486 b.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • Previous missions have spied plumes of water vapor erupting into space through the ice shell.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Relative humidity is the amount of water vapor pressure in the air.
    — Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 8 Sep. 2022

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